几个月前,马萨诸塞科技学院的神经科学家马修·威尔逊突然宣布自己提示了老鼠做梦的奥秘。威尔逊和他的研究生助手肯威·路易曾将微型电极直接植入老鼠的海马(大脑的侧脑室底的一隆突。此隆突内含有皮质组织的复杂皱褶,与海马有关的其他结构联系在一起,参与边缘系统的种种活动。——译者注)。海马是一个负责记忆的认知的领域。然后,他们训练老鼠围着环形的轨道匆匆小跑, A few months ago, Matthew Wilson, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, suddenly announced that he was hint of the mystery of the mouse dreaming. Ken Wilson and his graduate aide, Kenwei Louis, had implanted the microelectrode directly into the hippocampus of the rat, a bulge in the brain’s lateral ventricles, which contains complex folds of cortical tissue and other structural links to the hippocampus Together, participate in the activities of the limbic system .-- Translator’s Note). The hippocampus is a cognitive area in charge of memory. Then, they trained the rats to trot around the ring track,